nbc correspondent rachel angle is on the ground tonight. the stage is set for combat. there is a change on the front line. it could trigger a war. ukrainian police and military said russian-backed separatists attacked ukraine towns and that. police released a video of them being here. tua provoked a ukrainian military to respond with force. in their mind giving russia an excuse to send its troops across the border. with all of that is a backdrop, secretary of state, anthony blinken, made an unscheduled stop at the un today, on his way to meet with u.s. allies in germany. he laid out, in stark and chilling detail, how russia might create a pretext for an attack. it could be a fabricated so-called terrorist bombing
that the threat, while severe, is no worse than the spin over the past eight years. and of course this would be a big moment for him to go meet with vice president harris. and a big moment for her. because this is the first time she has been dropped into a live current active foreign policy crisis. and we haven t seen how she operates in that case. secretary blinken is also here and will be speaking at the conference in just a few hours. yeah. it will be a big test, and you will be all over it. david sanger, thank you for being with us this morning. as you just heard from david there, secretary of state blinken laying out several steps the u.s. says it expects russia to take in the coming days to justify starting a war in ukraine. . it could be a fabricated so-called terrorist bombing inside russia. the invented discovery of a mass grave, a staged drone strike against civilians or a fake,
we see them add to the more than 150,000 troops that they already have a radar on that border, and i know first hand that you don t do these sort of things for no reason. they don t do these things for no reason. well, they re also laying out putin s playbook for the world. the russian leader isn t known for his honesty, shall we say. he s manufactured crises before as a pretext for war. and biden and company are warning, beware because it seems to be happening all over again. we have reason to believe that they are engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse to go in. russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. it could be a fabricated, so-called terrorist bombing inside russia, a staged drone strike against civilians, or a fake even a real attack using chemical weapons. before any attack, we should
after an explosion at a mosque in kandahar in southern afghanistan. more than 90 people were injured in the blast which happened during friday prayers. the cause is not yet clear but a suicide bombing is suspected. our correspondent, yogita limaye, has the latest for us from kabul. the attack took place in a big mosque in kandahar city, and it was at a time when people had gathered together for morning at a time when people had gathered togetherfor morning prayers, and from videos and photos that have shown the aftermath of the explosion, you can see people lying dead and injured on the floor of the mosque amidst shattered people like mac pieces of glass, shattered pieces of glass. people have been rushed to hospitals nearby. it follows another deadly attack which took place a week ago in northern afghanistan, where there was another shia mosque targeted by terrorist bombing. the regional affiliate of islamic claimed responsibility for that attack, and we do not know who
anthony weiner sent less ill-advised tweets. if only you had known this was a gold star family grieving the loss of their loved one, one of the 13 american heroes kill in the kabul terrorist bombing in in august. you remember, the operation that biden called a success. so instead of asking a few questions, she decided to squeal like miss piggy with an apple in her mouth. the people in the photo were who they were, she doubled down, replying, how does that exempt them from wearing a mask. in theory, it doesn t. but in reality, you re a [ bleep ]. [ applause ] greg: sometimes no word fits except for that word. why, joe, why can t people mind their own damn business.